---------------------------------------- > From: p-k...@live.com > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:38:42 -0400 > Subject: Re: [9fans] Running plan9 within Hyper-V > >>Hi, >> >>Was planning to have a stab at running / using plan9 and am struggling to >>find compatible hardware (I want to use a laptop). Anyway, I have a win8.1 >>pro laptop and though about using Hyper-V as the VM for running plan9. I was >>just wondering if I was being an idiot>for even attempting it (the Hyper-V >>bit, not the plan9 bit!) ? >> >>Any advice welcome. > > To the best of my ability, I could never get it running on either Win 8.1 or > WinServer 2012r2's Hyper-V, regardless of Gen1 or Gen2. Microsoft made > changes to the platform, because it was possible back in the Win 7 era. >
I agree that Microsoft made a load of changes in Hyper-V, it was just that qemu is a bit of an unknown. Anyway, have now got qemu running nicely on me Win8 machine and am in the process of installing Plan9 onto it :-) -- Nigel
